What a super week it has been in our first full week of Year 5! The children have settled in so well and are really up to speed on the expectations of upper juniors.
We began our brand new RE curriculum this week with our first unit being ‘Creation & Covenant’, looking into the first covenants that God made with the strongest faiths and those who showed the most trust in God. We started with Abraham and how he was promised to be the father of many nations and how this linked down to his great grandchild, Joseph, and the wonderful story of how his faith and trust in God became such an inspirational story in the Bible. The children have had a blast singing, dancing and recreating the story of Joseph with some roleplay.
In maths, we have continued to look into our newest column in place value- our tenths column and have been exploring this in various ways such as part whole diagrams, addition and subtraction equations, fractions and also decimals.
In English, we have dived into what it would be like as a WW2 evacuee and have began writing letters back home to our parents from the 1940’s.
It was lovely to meet so many of you on Wednesday at induction evening and to finally put some names to faces (which will certainly help me out on the gate at the end of the day!). If you didn’t manage to make induction evening or you missed any key details from the night, here is a copy of the slides from the presentation.
Riddle of the Week
Test your parents on today’s riddle.
What breaks as soon as you say it?
Question of the Week- conversation starter
In history, we have been looking into the rise of Athens during the Ancient Greek times and how they became one of the most powerful cities in the world. One of the influential impacts was the creation of democracy and changing the way how cities were governed and controlled. We will get the chance next week to see what democracy looks like in our country when we visit the Houses of Parliament.
If you the Prime Minister, what changes would you bring out to make our country a better place?
Let’s Celebrate
Our first certificate winners of Year 5!
Virtue Star of the Week: Our virtues for this half term are learned and wise. Our winner this week goes to Scarlett. You have been so learned these past two weeks and have transferred all of your skills from Year 4 straight into Year 5. You have shone so much wisdom in our lessons and have done this with such kindness, love and patience. Thankyou Scarlett!
Learning Certificate Winner of the Week: Our winner this week goes to Fletcher for being a focused and determined learner. I could not have asked for a better start to Year 5 Fletcher! You have been so focused during teacher inputs, independent tasks and following instructions. Your eagerness to challenge yourself and the way you put so much focus into your challenges is excellent to see. Brilliant work!
Notices
Homework- Please check the homework blog for your child’ weekly homework, including the deadline date.
Forest School- Those children attending forest school, a letter has gone home this week. We will be having our whole class forest school day on 3rd October.
Sports Timetable- A full timetable for all of the sports opportunites this half term is available on the sports page of the school website [engage-sport]
Trip to London Thursday 18th September- A full blog in regards to our trip to London will be live next week for details on timings, itinerary and what to bring. Payment is still live on parent pay
Medical and Consent Forms- Please complete the forms below ASAP. I am still waiting on a number of these then photos can then start to be uploaded to the blog.